Audience: Administrators with school and district subscriptions
Administrators can set up your school's classes, teacher, and student accounts in bulk with CSV rostering. This is quicker and easier than creating accounts one at a time.
⚠️ We highly recommend creating NEW classes each year and archiving old ones instead of reusing the previous year's classes. Before you create any new classes for the upcoming school year, double-check that you have completed the steps in our End of Year Guide.
CSV Rostering Instructions
- Sign in to your Seesaw Admin Account to access your School Dashboard(s) at app.seesaw.me
- Tap Import & Edit Class Rosters on the Overview tab.
- Tap Add NEW Classes.
- Download either the Google Sheets Template or the Microsoft Excel Template and fill it out with your class information. While on the tab with your data, save the file as a .csv file to your computer.
Note: If you are outside of the United States, please read Setting Up Your Class Rosters with CSV outside of the United States. - Tap Select CSV from Computer to upload your file.
- When your upload is complete, you will receive a summary of the classes, students, and teachers who will be created and existing students and teachers who will be updated.
- If an error message or warning appears, read it carefully and return to your original file to fix any errors. Note: Data Errors will not allow data to upload. Data Warnings will allow data to upload. Please make sure you are comfortable with the changes that the Data Warnings will allow before you finish your import. After fixing the errors, save a new .csv and upload again.
- Once there are no errors, click ‘Preview’.
- Scroll through the changes to double-check the data.
- Click ‘Finish Import’ to import your .csv.
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